openspaceman
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Everything posted by openspaceman
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Yes me too, I made the decision a few years back when I realised how much strimmer line was being issued to our crews, on the railway there is no option.
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Yes being a military man you recognise the wisdom of a pre-emptive strike
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First thing I'd check is that the valve clearance wasn't too small if it runs when cold but not when hot
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It looks more like an aphid or mite attack to me
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Old New holland balers used to have shear pins on the flywheel to prevent the energy in the flywheel damaging the mechanism if a hard foreign object got in the packing chamber but also had a slip clutch built into the pto . The mowers tended to have a torque limiting pto shaft. I'd hunt around for one of them to replace a simple PTO shaft.
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Stubby I think you are right, the air in a conventional tyre takes the shock as it compresses but it is the tyre that absorbs the energy, as heat and dissipates it as well as the springs of the suspension, with the dampers then absorbing their energy. This means the whole mass of the tyre is unsprung weight. If you can have a flexible link between the tread and the wheel centre that can keep the tread on the road without altering the point of rotation above the ground then the tread is the only bit of unsprung weight.
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I'm interested as to why YOU would post it, I'm well to the left of you but not particularly socialist although I have observed the post war swing away from the ideals that produced the welfare state and am not that sanguine about it. However in the apparent awareness that current exploitation of resources is probably not sustainable I do identify with this grauniad piece, and have alluded to it before. Having super rich people who can afford to ignore calls to better conserve resources does the globe no good. I also fail to see the benefits to the super rich as persons.
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I imagine when using a small tractor the engine stalls before the shearpin breaks but with a larger tractor breaking the shearpin becomes a problem? So if it has a large flywheel logic would suggest running it faster overcomes the stalling but then does the power requirement go up as there are more cuts in a given time so the small tractor then cannot cope with a long large log?
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Sounds like our thing
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That's certainly what happened when they ran the sprout matador ring die machine for the first time at Bridgend as reported to me by my erstwhile co directors who were working for the charity at the time.
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Tree removal in Scotland
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Makes sense, it means you cannot clear cut any woodland without a licence by repeatedly using the exemption. It should preserve small native woods without making applications for trivial management in woodland. -
Barry @GardenKit doesn't post here much. I assume the valves just have keyhole keepers rather then collets?? Can you compress the spring without compressing the washers, so they dangle loose and you can jiggle then off?
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How big do insects' arseholes get?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frass "Frass refers loosely to the more or less solid excreta of insects, and to certain other related matter. " So we normally see it as fragments of wood dust at boring insect exit holes. The OP's picture looks a bit more like an animal has collected material for a nest unrelated to the bees
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Stubby is titanium reinforced I believe
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Tree removal in Scotland
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Not a bad change IMO, when I started you could fell 30m3 without a licence and that was 2 six wheeler loads. Will they have the staff to handle it? What is the statute of limitations on the offence of felling without a licence? -
You're supposed to hold the top of the bag in one hand and allow the squirrel to pop its head out so the priest could deliver the last rites in your other hand in practice if it got its head out the body would follow too soon after for me to do anything about it.
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My first job in the 70s involved checking the trap line each morning and evening. I came to dislike humane traps, especially family ones as doing as FC recommended was difficult at best of times and impossible if a whole family were trapped. It did no good in any case as neighbouring land was not controlled.
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Tree removal in Scotland
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Which is why I mentioned the law in England . Anyway I don't see much of problem by using exemptions he''ll get there in 4 quarters without resorting to lopping and topping, in the absence of TPOs -
Tree removal in Scotland
openspaceman replied to trigger_andy's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
That can be debatable, the term is within the curtilage of a dwelling in England, so it is often interpreted as the area of land managed and enjoyed by the householder, typically shown by having been mown or cultivated. Thus an area abandoned to forest ceases to be within the curtilage. I think it is all probably garden but even if not there are ways around it if you want a bit of light in. -
pippy is post 1980 description but I think of it being more dispersed rather than the paw marks
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That's cat's paw not pippy
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Popular Liriodendron tulipifera
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Deodar at Benstead's
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Yup, loose bar nuts is the normal reason for failure
